Keren AHAVA · Public Benefit Company
Healing in a word.
Mediation, healing, and family - for couples, parents, soldiers and survivors, held with quiet professionalism in a safe, unhurried space.
Our belief
Words can heal, connect, and save relationships.
AHAVA Foundation operates from a deep belief that words can heal, connect, and save relationships - and above all, safeguard the wellbeing of children and families.
We initiate and operate social projects that make family mediation, constructive communication, and emotional tools accessible to the general public, with particular care for families in moments of crisis.
The word
A.H.A.V.A.
The Hebrew word Ahava - love - is also an acronym hidden inside the opening verse of Genesis: “the heavens and the earth.” The discovery, made two years after the word entered our work, became the seed for everything that followed: a vocabulary, a method, and a foundation.
At Ha·shamayim
Ve'At Ha'aretz
“The heavens and the earth.” The first verse of the first book. We work in that breath, between the largest and the most everyday.
3,000+
hours of mediation
Contributed to families since the COVID lockdowns, after a public notice in Yedioth Ahronoth.
5
meetings to a signing
The structure of the AHAVA mediation process - clear, unhurried, and ending in a small ceremony.
80%
subsidy on access
Where mediation is funded, parents contribute the remaining 20%, which protects ownership of the process.
Our projects
Five quiet ways we hold families.
Each project is an answer to a real moment - a family in conflict, a soldier returning home, a community looking for somewhere warm to land.
- 01PENDING
Emergency Video Mediation Hotline
An immediate, human voice in the middle of the storm.
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- 02ACTIVE
Subsidized Mediation & Consultation
Dialogue made affordable, so families don’t have to choose between peace and cost.
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- 03ACTIVE
Hosting Soldiers, Wounded & Trauma Survivors
A safe house for those who carry October 7th, and the partners who carry them.
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- 04ACTIVE
A New Public Discourse of Mediation
Lectures, gatherings, and a daily podcast quietly shifting the conversation.
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- 05ACTIVE
AHAVA House for Families, A Community Center
A living, connecting, supporting room, open to the community in Pardes Hanna.
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Our flag
A symbol for a different kind of strength.
Our emblem, two interlocking hearts cradling a Star of David, expresses what we believe Israeli resilience can also look like: tender, deeply connected, and held together by listening.
It is the quiet face of strength we bring to every family, every retreat, and every conversation we are entrusted with.
From the field
Quiet moments from our work.
Retreats, gatherings, and the courtyard of AHAVA House, photographed by the people who lived through them.
A safe space
When you're ready to talk, we're here.
An introductory session with a professional mediator is offered to parents at no cost.
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